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The Future of Flatpak | Sebastian Wick @ LAS 2025
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is this available in text form?
Don't believe so, best that's currently available is skimming through the video to look at the slides.
Here's my short summary of the presentation, I tried to denote what's being worked on (open PR), what's kinda being done (WIP), and things stuff they'd like to be done in the future (wishlist). May be somewhat wrong.
Why is it stagnant?
Major people of the project had moved on. It’s being maintained, getting security fixes, but pull requests are slow to be merged.
I hope they plan on keeping pulse for the foreseeable future. Pipewire is great and all but pulse is very entrenched, I still maintain quite a bit of systems that are pulse only.
That is planned. But pulse is not secure, so exposing it is not great.